Happiness brings satisfaction in the saddle

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King has been surprised by the power she is generating on the bikeBryn Lennon/Getty Images

Dani King

Last updated at 4:23PM, May 1 2015

You often hear it said that happy people make the fastest bike riders. Given the form I have had in the first few weeks of proper racing this season, I can believe that.

I took overall victory earlier this month at the Tour of the Reservoir, my first road race since the November crash, on the same day that Luke Rowe, brother of my boyfriend Matt, took a superb eighth place on Paris-Roubaix. Luke and Matt’s dad, Courtney, is coaching me again and the atmosphere in the Rowe household that weekend was fantastic.